"A bunch of bastards!"

Liu Lancheng, wearing the armor of the Tang Army General, cursed, "Are you still standing guard? Those who are lying on their own, those who are squatting, and all of them will be executed according to military law!"

Several gatekeepers were so scared that they didn't dare to show up, but they didn't know which great master this hot-tempered general was?

Liu Lancheng shouted again: "Go and let Yang Zhaonian come to see me!"

"Who is the general?" a team asked carefully.

Liu Lancheng took out Li Shimin's Qin King's gold medal and raised them, and sneered, "Did you see clearly? His Highness Qin King's gold medal, come to Ba County for business under the order of His Highness Qin King. If I have urgent matters, I will report to Yang Zhaonian as soon as possible."

The team was just hearing that it was an envoy sent by His Highness the King of Qin, so scared that he did not dare to neglect. He rushed into the barracks and ran to report to the chief general Yang Zhaonian. Although there were still many doubts in it, such as why did it arrive in the middle of the night? Why didn’t there be no horse riding? Why didn’t the soldiers guarding the city come to report?

The lack of riding a horse can be explained as coming by boat, but the failure of the city guards to report is the biggest flaw. It is just that the position of the goalkeeper team is too low, and they are scared by the gold medal of Qin King Li Shimin. They dare not ask any questions, and turn around and run to report to the military camp.

Liu Lancheng also knew that they had many flaws. The team was not afraid to ask, which did not mean that the main general Yang Zhaonian did not doubt it. He winked at his subordinates, rushed forward, knocked down seven guard posts, and killed them with one knife.

Liu Lancheng then led more than a hundred subordinates to the barracks quickly and followed the sentry to the eastward house. Two soldiers stood in front of the door of the house. It seemed that there was Yang Zhaonian's barracks.

The team was whispering to the personal soldiers. One of them went into the house to report. After a moment, a general wearing a military robe came out. This person was the chief general Yang Zhaonian. Yang Zhaonian was the confidant of Li Shenfu, the prince of Beichuan County. He was cruel and skilled in martial arts. He had participated in the rebellion of the counties in northern Shu and killed countless people. The people of Shu called him "Yang Zaoyan" behind his back.

At this time, Yang Zhaonian was also confused. How could His Highness the King of Qin send people? There was no news in Chengdu, and it actually came in the middle of the night. He was a little suspicious, but he did not doubt the Zhou army's night attack. After all, there was no news of the Zhou army attacking on the Three Gorges Road. The Zhou army could not descend from the sky. He suspected that the King of Qin was doing something with Li Shenfu on his back.

He walked out and asked the sentry team rightly, "Who is the person who came? Did he say why?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone on the opposite side smiled and said, "How could the sentry know? Why would you ask me directly?"

When Yang Zhaonian looked up, he saw a person standing a dozen steps away. Behind him was a large group of soldiers, shrouded in darkness, and the soldiers could not see clearly.

"Who are you?" Yang Zhaonian shouted angrily.

"Liu Lancheng!"

As soon as Liu Lancheng finished speaking, the hundred soldiers behind him raised crossbow arrows at the same time. Yang Zhaonian suddenly saw the crossbow arrows and was shocked. It was too late to retreat to the room. The dense arrows hit like rain. The four people at the door were shot like hedgehogs and killed on the spot.

Liu Lancheng stepped forward and cut off Yang Zhaonian's head with a knife, and ordered: "Send a signal!"

Three rockets soared into the air at the same time, and the bright red flames passed through the night sky. A thousand soldiers waiting outside the barracks rushed out of the darkness and rushed into the barracks.

At the same time, the soldiers of the six thousand Zhou army, led by Li Keshi, rushed into Ba County from Zhang Fei Temple and rushed straight to the military camp. The alarm sound of "Dang!Dang!Dang!" suddenly came from the top of the city.

But the alarm sounded too late that echoed the whole city. In Liu Lancheng's voice, this was just a death knell for their master general.

After taking over Ba County, Liu Lancheng's army rested for five days. Five days later, Zhang Li led 3,000 troops to arrive in Ba County with the main force of the Zhou navy. He joined Liu Lancheng's army. The two armies then joined forces and marched into Luchuan County along the Yangtze River. The road was as strong as bamboo. Luchuan County, Jianwei County, Meishan, Ziyang County and other counties all surrendered.

Although there were more than a thousand county soldiers in each county, under the strong suppression of the Zhou Dynasty's army, the Bashu counties had no will to resist. They opened cities and surrendered, changed flags and flags, and expressed their loyalty to the emperor of the Great Zhou Empire.

After entering Jianwei County, the naval fleet of the Great Zhou Empire turned north and rushed along the Minjiang River toward Chengdu. Another Zhou army also rushed into Tongchuan County under the leadership of Xu Shiji and marched towards Chengdu.

There are three counties in the Hexi Corridor, namely Wuwei County, Zhangye County and Dunhuang County. After Li Jing captured Wuwei County, he immediately led a large army to march westward. Five days later, he entered Zhangye County and the troops arrived at Zhangye City. The prefect Li Changqing opened the city and surrendered to the Zhou army.

Li Jing appeased Li Changqing and continued to let him serve as the prefect. He also ordered the Huya Lang General Zhou Qiong to lead 3,000 troops to lead Zhangye County, while he himself led tens of thousands of troops to continue westward and headed towards Dunhuang County.

At noon that day, Li Jing led an army of 30,000 to Yumen Pass. It was about to hit a sandstorm. The sky was as dark as ink. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Jing urgently ordered the army to station on the spot. In just half an hour, the 30,000 troops set up thousands of large tents. The soldiers and war horses were crowded in the tent to avoid the whistling sandstorm. Soon, the whole sky became dark, sandstorm raging, and the wind roared, and the world became dark, as if the end of the world was coming.

A glass lamp was lit in Li Jing's big tent, and the dim light made the big tent look light and dark. Li Jing stood in front of the door with his hands behind his back, looking at the terrifying celestial phenomena outside through a gap in the door. He sighed and said, "Compared with the power of heaven and earth, manpower is so small."

More than 20 civilian officials were also hiding in the tent. Yang Xin joined the army and said with a smile: "Dunhuang County is exactly the junction of the grassland and the Gobi Desert. The weather changes a lot. Sometimes it is still shining brightly, but it will rain heavily in a blink of an eye. Now it is spring, and sandstorms will be taken care of. It is much better to go to Zhangye. Beizhi grew up in Dunhuang since he was a child. This kind of sandstorm is no longer surprising. In fact, it seems to be fierce, but it is not very lethal."

Li Jing asked curiously again: "Why do you have the most lethality?"

"hail!"

Everyone laughed in the big tent, "Yang Chanjun was joking, how lethal can hail have?"

Yang Xin shook his head and said, "That's because you haven't seen it. Walking on the Gobi Desert, hail as big as an egg hits the sky and there is no place to hide. At the very least, it can be injured or even dies. What's even more exaggerated is that in the spring of the second year of Daye, a hail storm was as big as a grapefruit, killing hundreds of people and thousands of livestock. The wheat was almost completely harvested at that time, so the people of Dunhuang regard hail as the number one disaster. This sandstorm is really nothing?"

Li Jing smiled, "To put it this way, every soldier must bring a round shield."

"General, don't worry too much. Although hail is terrible, it is not encountered every year, and it is not hail in the entire Dunhuang County. It is just a small area. In the fourth year of Daye, it happened to be a disaster in Dunhuang County, so it suffered heavy losses."

Everyone talked about the disasters in their hometowns. Some said that the drought was terrible, and some still remembered the floods. Li Jing sat back and took out a handwritten eagle letter from the military advisor, and looked carefully. This was an eagle letter they sent when they seized Wuwei County. The emperor gave clear instructions to the Western Regions and the Hehuang counties. If the counties in the Western Regions have been captured by Tuyuhun and the Western Turks, they can move slowly and not attack for the time being. They will concentrate their troops to recover after unification.

Li Jing picked up the glass lamp and walked to the map. He carefully looked at the locations of the counties in the Western Regions on the map. He knew that Yang Guang fought against Tuyuhun twice and set up Heyuan, Xihai, Shanshan, and Qiemo County in the Tuyuhun area. In the sixth year of Daye, Yiwu County was established. In fact, the five counties were in chaos for so many years at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and there were no troops there. Since these five counties did not join the Tang Dynasty, it means that they were most likely to have fallen.

After pondering for a long time, Li Jing waved to Yang Xin and asked him to come forward. Li Jing pointed to Yiwu County and asked, "Does Yang Senjun know whose hands Yiwu County is now?"

Yang Xin was about 30 years old and was a Jinshi in Daye for the fourth year. He served as the magistrate of Dong'a County in Jibei County. Later, he served as the magistrate of Feicheng County. Because he was from Dunhuang and had enough qualifications, Zhang Xuan transferred him to join the army under Li Jing's account, in order to let him serve as the prefect or county magistrate of Dunhuang County.

Yang Xin shook his head and said, "After entering Luoyang for four years, he has never returned to Dunhuang. If the general asks about Dunhuang County, he still knows a little bit about the situation. Yiwu County really doesn't know it, and the other counties don't know it, but the general will know it tomorrow."

"Why?" Li Jing was puzzled.

"Because there must be a caravan in Yumen Pass that avoids sandstorms, I found out from these merchants."

"Don't the officials of Dunhuang County know?"

"Even if the government knows it, it's been a long time ago. Only businessmen will bring the latest news."
Chapter completed!